2024 National Rankings: 129 teams in Florida are among High School Football America’s Top 1000 teams in preseason rankings

High School Football America and it’s publisher Jeff Fisher has released what is believe to be the first look at any type of national ranking for the 2024 high school football season on Tuesday afternoon with the High School Football America Preseason Top 1000.

The state-by-state look of the teams in the rankings are in no particular order ahead of the unveling of the Preseason HSFA 300 that is created using High School Football America’s proprietary algorithm that has been used for HSFA’s national rankings since the 2013 season.

As such, Florida is leading the way with 129 teams among the Top 1000 with many of these teams likely to be featured in the Top 300 preseason rankings.

Eight of the nine defending state champions made the cut while seven of the nine state runner-ups also made the cut for the Top 1000. In addition to those teams, 13 other teams that were state semifinalist last year are also a part of the Top 1000 teams in the rankings.

Here at the teams to make the cut in the Top 1000:

American Heritage (Plantation) – CLASS 2M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Apopka

Armwood (Seffner)

Atlantic (Delray Beach)

Auburndale

Bartram Trail (St. Johns)

Belen Jesuit (Miami)

Benjamin (Palm Beach Gardens)

Berkeley Prep (Tampa) – DEFENDING CLASS 2M STATE CHAMPION

Bishop Verot (Fort Myers)

Blanche Ely (Pompano Beach)

Boca Raton

Bolles (Jacksonville) – CLASS 2M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Booker (Sarasota) – CLASS 2S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Buchholz (Gainesville) – CLASS 4S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Calvary Christian (Clearwater)

Cardinal Gibbons (Fort Lauderdale)

Cardinal Mooney (Sarasota) – DEFENDING CLASS 1S STATE CHAMPION

Cardinal Newman (West Palm Beach)

Carrollwood Day (Tampa)

Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood) – DEFENDING CLASS 1M STATE CHAMPION

Chiles (Tallahassee)

Choctawhatchee (Fort Walton Beach)

Clearwater

Clearwater Central Catholic – CLASS 1M STATE RUNNER-UP

Cocoa – DEFENDING CLASS 2S STATE CHAMPION

Coconut Creek

Columbia (Lake City)

Columbus (Miami) – DEFENDING CLASS 4M STATE CHAMPION

Creekside (St. Johns)

DeLand – CLASS 4S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Dillard (Fort Lauderdale)

Doral Academy

Dr. Phillips (Orlando)

Dunbar (Fort Myers) – CLASS 3S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Durant (Plant City)

East Bay (Gibsonton)

Edgewater (Orlando)

Ed White (Jacksonville)

Escambia (Pensacola)

Eau Gallie (Melbourne)

Fletcher (Neptune Beach)

Florida High (Tallahassee)

Gaither (Tampa) – CLASS 3M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Golden Gate (Naples)

Gulliver Prep (Pinecrest)

Heritage (Palm Bay)

Hillsborough (Tampa)

Homestead – CLASS 3M STATE RUNNER-UP

IMG Academy National (Bradenton)

Jesuit (Tampa)

Jones (Orlando) – CLASS 3M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Lake Gibson (Lakeland)

Lakeland – CLASS 4S STATE CHAMPION

Lake Minneola

Lake Wales

Lake Mary

Lakewood (St. Petersburg)

Largo

Leesburg

Lincoln (Tallahassee)

Madison County (Madison) – CLASS 1R STATE RUNNER-UP

Mainland (Daytona Beach) – DEFENDING CLASS 3S STATE CHAMPION

Manatee (Bradenton)

Mandarin (Jacksonville) – CLASS 4M STATE RUNNER-UP

Merritt Island

Miami Central

Miami Edison

Miami Killian

Miami Norland – CLASS 2M STATE RUNNER-UP

Miami Northwestern

Miami Palmetto

Miami Southridge

Mitchell (New Port Richey)

Miramar

Monarch (Coconut Creek) – CLASS 4M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Monsignor Pace (Miami)

Mosley (Lynn Haven)

Naples

Navarre

Nease (Ponte Vedra)

Niceville

North Miami Beach

Osceola (Kissimmee)

Oviedo

Pahokee

Palm Beach Central (Wellington)

Palm Beach Gardens

Palmetto

Pensacola Catholic – CLASS 2S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Plant (Tampa) – CLASS 4M STATE SEMIFINALIST

Plantation

Plant City

Pine Forest (Pensacola)

Pinellas Park (Largo)

Ponte Vedra

Raines (Jacksonville)

Riverside (Jacksonville)

Riverview (Sarasota)

Rockledge

Sebring

Seminole (Sanford)

South Dade (Homestead)

South Sumter

South Walton (Santa Rosa Beach)

Spruce Creek (Port Orange)

St. Augustine – CLASS 3S STATE RUNNER-UP

St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) – DEFENDING CLASS 3M STATE CHAMPION

Stranahan (Fort Lauderdale)

Sumner (Riverview)

Tampa Bay Tech

Treasure Coast (Port St. Lucie)

Trinity Christian Academy (Jacksonville) – CLASS 1M STATE SEMIFINALIST

University (Orange City)

Vanguard (Ocala) – CLASS 3S STATE SEMIFINALIST

Venice – CLASS 4S STATE RUNNER-UP

Vero Beach

Viera

Wakulla (Crawfordville)

Wekiva (Apopka)

West Boca Raton

West Broward (Pembroke Pines)

West Orange (Winter Garden)

Western (Davie)

Wharton (Tampa)

Winter Park

Wiregrass Ranch (Wesley Chapel)

Zephyrhills